Site of the Week

Every week I plan on featuring a site on Century of the Common Iowan. These sites will vary from progressive blogs, to quality organizations, to candidates, to humourous sites, and to even Right-wing hangouts.

For the innaguaral site of the week I will grace you with 2 insteresting and funny sites. The first sites comes from Iowa and has gotten a lot of publicity this week from the likes of the New York Times and Washington Post!

Our first site of the week is Iowa Voice or as the folks at Iowa Undergound like to call them Voice Mart.


Iowa Voice made the NY Times and Washington Post this week in a story about Wal Mart paying bloggers to spread the good news of Wal Mart and how well they treat their workers. Now 2 things I do not like are Wal Mart (haven't shopped there for over 2 years) and people who will do anything for money. It looks likes Brian at Iowa Voice does both of those things. Also if you visit Iowa Voice, please be careful if you leave comments. He likes to ban people who leave any comment that disagrees with his posts.


After looking for some information about the Bill O'Reilly - Keith Olberman feud, I found the 2nd site of the week: Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly. Hope you enjoy it just as much as I do!

If you aren't aware of the feud it started with O'Reilly starting a petition for MSNBC to fire Olberman. Olberman shot back with some hilarious segments on his show. Then last week O'Reilly wouldn't let callers to his radio show even say Olberman's name and threatened that these people will be hearing from Fox Security. Well, at the beginning of the week, one of these callers actually did get a call from Fox Security. Olberman interviewed the man on last nights show. I am really not a fan of O'Reilly, and I like Olberman's show a lot. (I hope bill doesn't send the Fox secutiry to my door for saying that.) Olberman's show is one of the few where you can actually find news and not talking heads trashing each other. There is also a petition out to fire O'Reilly, so if you want sign it.